Ep. 6: Queer Housing & Homelessness Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project

Housing is an LGBTQ issue with an interesting history.



From the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ+ History Project, we proudly present Episode 6 on the history of queer housing and homelessness in Southwest Virginia.



All of the archival audio interviews in this episode are drawn from oral histories in the LGBTQ History Collection at the Virginia Room, Roanoke Public Libraries, located in Roanoke, Virginia. The oral history narrators featured in today’s program include:  

- Theodore Cassel

- Barbara Maberry

- Myer S. Reed

- Nathaniel Preston

- Price 

- Gail Burruss 

- Joe Cobb 

- Anonymous 

- Michelle Bennett 

- Peter Thornhill 

- Gerry Jennings



Thank you to Phoenix, Harper, Bean, Joe Cobb, Matt Crookshank, and Alison Jorgensen; also Bee, Hannah, and Rachel Anne from Kinship House; and Jamie, Chris, and Lee from Mosaic House; for all of your contributions to this podcast.

Additional archival audio courtesy of the WSLS-TV News Film Collection at the University of Virginia and WFXR-TV. 

The music in today’s episode comes from: Blue Dot Sessions, Purple Planet Music, Josh Leake, Louis Adrien, Jamie Rutherford, and ANBR.

Please subscribe and share. You can find more information about the Southwest Virginia LGBTQ History Project, and this podcast, at swvalgbtqhistory.org. We are also on Facebook at Southwest Virginia LGBTQ History Project, and follow us on Instagram at swvalgbtqhistory.